A US-China War Should Be Unthinkable

Both sides need to take more steps away from their cold war paths

When Xi Jinping met Joe Biden for their summit talks on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali earlier this month, the Chinese leader waited for the U.S. president to come to him. 

The 69-year-old Xi  had planted himself squarely in front of a stand of Chinese and American flags outside the hotel conference room where the talks would take place. 

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